Comment Re:Think twice before using Oracle, then think aga (Score 1) 147
PostgreSQL can do the vast majority of what Oracle can do at no cost
And PG year after year is much, MUCH easier to install,backup,and maintain.
PostgreSQL can do the vast majority of what Oracle can do at no cost
And PG year after year is much, MUCH easier to install,backup,and maintain.
Candidate Obama debates President Obama on Government Surveillance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8&feature=youtu.be
This is more about democratic process than privacy.
Tice (NSA whistleblower to NYT in 2004) claims that the NSA is wiretapping members of congress, federal judges, FISA judges, appropriations committees,
Lets hope this is all one elaborate lie or we have a KGB in america.
Not sure what to make of this. Any thoughts other than hopelessness?
As an NLP Bioinformatics guy, I believe the real crime Aaron Swartz committed was being in the news.
He isn't the first to have that dataset and he wont be the last.
We write papers using massive NLP scans of publications rather routinely.
Most of the time, the papers are downloaded from PubMed (public funded) so they can't even complain about bandwidth costs, etc.
For anyone who didn't know already, most subscription Publishers don't **DO** anything.
They are only slightly better than patent trolls, and in some cases, worse.
After their comeback, they will ___________. Their focus is on ___________.
After their comeback, they will HIRE Time Berners Lee. Their focus is on the Semantic Web.
Why would the inventor of the WWW work for Yahoo?
Because you give him ALL the resources to make his dream a coherent reality.
Long shot for sure, but its what I would do.
That is because both Abrams and Bay can't seem to write any character
CANT or WONT? The variable is named $box_office and has a default value of $MAX_PROFIT.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs